Basic Maths
Is 42 divisible by 3?
Yes
What is the 7th term of the following sequence? -4,-6,-8,.....-2n-2,...
-16
Which ancient Greek mathematician made important initial discoveries about the properties of triangles?
Pythagoras
Who were the two Indian Mathematicians that found the exact value of pi?
Madhava and Aryabhata
8027x215
The floor of a room measures 12 feet by 10 feet. The room has a 9-foot ceiling. The walls of the room are to be painted. What is the area to be painted?
396 ft²
He is known for his invention of the mechanical calculator.
Blaise Pascal
Who is the constant 'e' named after?
Leonhard Euler
If Mrs. Anthony is trying to organise her class of 20 students into rows for the class photo and each row is to have equal number of students. What possible arrangements can he have?
She can have 10 rows of 2, 4 rows of 5 students, 5 rows of 4 students, or one row of 20 students.
A store’s records showed that during a one-month period, 3 gallons of milk were sold for every 2 boxes of cereal sold. If 2,864 boxes of cereal were sold that month, what is the number of gallons of milk that were sold?
4,296 gallons
Was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …
Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo Pisano
Who is the only indian to receive the Abel's prize, which is considered to be equivalent to a Nobel's Prize?
Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan
Place brackets to make true 12 x 4 + 2 - 12 = 60
12 x (4 + 2) - 12 = 60
A hydrogen molecule is 1.5x10¯¹º meters in length. What is the number in decimal notation?
0.00000000015
The Greek mathematician, Euclid, discovered the first four perfect numbers, the first three being 6, 28 and 496. What is the fourth perfect number?
Clue: the first two digits are the largest two-digit square and the last two digits are the only two-digit perfect number.
8128
Was arguably the greatest mathematician in history. According to legend, he corrected a mistake in his father‘s accounting at the age of 3, and found a way to quickly add up all integers from 1 to 100 at the age of 8.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The Dewey Civic Center has 1,600 seats. Tickets for 85% of the total number of seats were sold. How many were sold?
1,360 seats
Lucy reads 450 words in 3 minutes. Find the number of words Lucy can read in 20 minutes if she continues to read at the same rate?
What was Ada Lovelace recognised a century after her death for that she did?
She wrote the first mathematical computer algorithm.
I was a child prodigy, giving math and philosophy lectures when I was young woman. I am most famous for my book, "Analytical Institutions", which includes discussions of algebra, geometry, and calculus. Who am I?
1. Ada Byron Lovelace
2. Maria Gaetana Agnesi
3. Grace Chisolm Young
4. Charlotte Agnes Scott
Maria Gaetana Agnesi